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Vickers
Passenger Carrying Cruiser
Vickers
designs also included a smaller rigid for continental mail and
passenger carrying.
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The
smaller of the passenger type cruiser airship would carry passengers
in gondola slung below the hull. This ship was seen as an express
passenger and mail carrier for trans continental traffic. As with
the larger craft, this ship would have also been moored out with
on the mooring masts. All Vickers ships were to be fitted with
the universal docking attachments to enable them to be moored
out to the "Masterman" patent type mooring mast.
Plan of
the passenger cruiser ship
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Statistics
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| Gross
Gas Capacity |
1,250,000
cft |
| Length |
535ft |
| Diameter |
70ft
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| Maximum
Speed |
65 |
| Cruising
Speed |
45mph |
| Endurance
at maximum speed |
60
hours/ 4,000 miles |
| Endurance
at cruising speed |
150
hours/ 6,800 miles |
| Passengers
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50
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| Related ships: Vickers Project, Trans-Oceanic
Liner, R80 |
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